Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do